Juvenile Fete and Balloon Race at Cremorne Gardens, London - a print from a page of The Illustrated London News magazine,1859 art poster canvas gift Elizabethan London vintage An iconic retrospective panoramic map

An iconic retrospective panoramic map of Tudor London in 1563 (before the Great Fire)

printed and hand-coloured in London in 1671

The composition unfolds from left to right

when fire destroyed millions of books

The battle has reversed the strategic military balance between Britain and France and established the Royal Navy as dominant force

Juvenile Fete and Balloon Race at Cremorne Gardens, London - a print from a page of The Illustrated London News magazine,1859 art poster canvas gift Elizabethan London vintage An iconic retrospective panoramic map"Juvenile Fete and Balloon Race at Cremorne Gardens, London" an antique Victorian engraved and hand coloured print from The Illustrated London News magazine, 17th September 1859. Cremorne Gardens were a Victorian attraction, popular pleasure gardens by the side of the River Thames in Chelsea, London. They lay between Chelsea Harbour and the end of the King's Road and flourished between 1845 and 1877. Opened in 1845, they were noisy and colourful